Redone: May 5th 2012
Two updates in one day! :D I saw "The Avengers" it was awesome! Review please
I own One Piece belongs to Oda-san! Not I, only Melody and Lilly are mine!
Time on the Sea
Chapter Four:
Previously on Time on the Sea…
– Luffy –
I watch as Melody falls to the ground, I watch as she lands on a large rock, that's sticking out of the ground. NO! She tries to crawl away, Melody! I'm supposed to protect you! I promised Shanks! I can only watch as the red blood appears from under her shirt, running down her leg on to the rocky ground. "Mphhhhh!" my heart wrenches and twists with my thoughts – What if she dies? What if she never sees me become the Pirate king? I don't want her to leave! I want her to stay by my side, so I can protect her! She is everything to me, my first friend, my first crew mate!
What is this feeling?
The men start walk again, Melody's blood trailing behind.
–Melody –
My eyes open slowly, I am tied around a wooden pole is the first thing I notice, second, is Luffy hanging above me, Beaten and bloody, his blood is sprayed everywhere, in my hair, on my clothes, on the ground "L-luffy?" my voice wavers and my side aches. How could I have not woken up from this…? Third, I had been bandaged, and my shirt is missing, bandaging covering my chest and sides. My face is bright red "…."
There is a man in front of me, long blond hair, a ring on one ear, sword at his side and shirtless Man, he's ugly! Only his mother could love that face…
"We'll since you refuse to tell us the location of the treasure…" the blond haired man speaks, not noticing I have woken up. "Die!" he pulls the sword from his belt, and raises it to cut Luffy.
I freeze, in the pit of my stomach a pulling sensation rises up through my body "NOOO! LUFFY!" I scream tears over flow; my mind becomes blank with the only thought of Luffy dying, by this man's hand. The other men in the room fall, knocked unconscious. But the blond stays standing, wavering slightly, his eyes wide, He turns to me "What–"
Then Ace and Sabo break through the wall, metal poles swinging, and scream "STOOOPPP!
Ace, Sabo… The dark consumes my mind again. What did I do? Luffy?
What happened…? Man, I really need to get stronger, or I'm gonna miss everything I open my eyes again, to the sound of Luffy crying "UEEEEEEN! DUUUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO…NNN"
"Why do you want to die so much?" I hear Sabo cut in "There's no way BlueJam's men will ever forgive us! We're gonna be chased now…!"
"That was Scary… I Fwought I was gunna Diiie!" Luffy cries again
Time to get up! I groan, lifting myself up on to my elbows "Yo, I'm awake"
"WELOOODY!" Luffy cries jumps on me, pushing me back on to the ground, his Straw hat back on his head is thrown on mine. A pain shoots through my side. "Agh! Luffy! Watch it!"
"I Fwought you wad gunnna diiiiee!"
"Luffy…"
"Shut up! How long are you gonna cry for anyway? I hate weaklings and crybabies. You really piss me off!" Ace yells. Luffy goes quiet "Luffy?" I still feel his tears still soaking my shirt; he lifts up off me, sitting formally "… Shankyou F…Fur fhaving me…uuu…" I look up, Ace and Sabo sit across of Luffy and I, on some large tree roots, they are covered in bandages, their metal poles lean beside them
"Goddamn it, you!" Ace growls
"Hey, Hey, He's just thanking you" Sabo tries to calm his raging friend.
"I don't get it… Why didn't you crack! Those men were criminals who kill woman and children!"
I smile to myself Luffy you are really brave, that's what I love about you…
"…But if I told them we couldn't be friends anymore…!" Luffy argues
"But it'd still be better than dying wouldn't it? Why do you want to be friends with me so much?" Ace points at him accusingly "do you know how much shit you put me through?"
Luffy turns back at me, with a sad smile, I move to sit beside him and pat his legs. Its ok, Pain shoots again at my movement "Agh!" I try and cover it with a cough. And smile sadly along with Luffy.
"BUT WE HAVE NO ONE ELSE TO RELY ON!" Luffy stands
I nod along with Luffy, tears blinking in my sight. No, I left behind everything else, But I will miss Lilly; she was like a sister to me… she would be so jealous, this is a new start! The tears disappear and I grab Luffy's hand to reassure myself.
"We can't go back to Windmill village… if we didn't chase after you, then we'd be alone… and being alone hurts worse than pain. We have each other… but…" I give his hand a squeeze, reassuring him "we both have been alone for so long…"
"…What about your parents…" asks Ace
"Grandpa's all I have…"
I start to stand, but wince at the pain, so stay half keeling "I have no parents"
"Whoa, whoa, girl you don't wanna get up. You're injured!" Sabo says pointing to my side
"It's fine if I can't handle this I'm not fit to be a pirate" I stand fully
"You want me around?" asks Ace
"Yep." Both Luffy and I answer, smiling brightly
"You want me to live…?"
"…!" I blink
"Of course BAKA!" I yell at him, ignoring the pain in my side from yelling.
"Yeah!" Luffy agrees
Ace scratches his head, shifting the bandages that cover it. "But I hate spoiled brats like you, y'know."
Luffy jumps down off the root we were occupying and stand in front of Ace "I'm not a spoiled brat! I'm strong! Right Mel?" he looks up at me "Yep, you're strong Luffy- when you eat that is…"
"Strong? You cry like a little girl!" Ace argues
"Oi! I'm a girl! I resent that comment!" I fold my arms over my chest, causing another wave of pain, wrack through my body, stronger than before, and the bandages become sticky. Black spots appearing in my eye sight "But first…can you get me to a hospital?" I fall forward, landing on a surprised Luffy "M-Mel? Melody? Please don't die! Ace! What'd we do? She's bleeding!"
"Ha, ha… I'm in pain…" the last thing I hear is Luffy screaming about how I'm dying Luffy Baka… thanks for caring…-the darkness consumes me yet again. Here we go~
"Yo!" the four of us walk into Makino's Bar for lunch
"Makino!"
"Food!"
"Hello"
We find her behind the bar counter washing dishes, "Hello everyone, come for lunch?"
"yes"
"Yep" I say with a big smile
"Food!" Luffy orders
"Yes"
We all take a seat at the bar, Luffy banging on the top with his fist chanting "Food, Food, give me food!"
Makino only laughs at his display
"Makino I was wondering… after we eat, can you teach these boys some manners?" I point to Ace, Sabo, and Luffy, who are flinging food all over the place, missing their mouths for the most part. And stared a silent food fight between themselves
"Sure."
With Lunch out of the way and the bar cleaned up Makino takes Ace, Sabo and Luffy outside, onto a patch of grass just outside the bar, with her sitting on a log, the boys in front. I break off to wonder around the village, and stretch, being cooped up in the fort for almost a month sucks, those stupid Bluejam pirates! Causing me to be injured!
I stop in front of a large tree, "Wow, its huge!" I bend back to get a good look, and my side throbs, "Agh! Melody, Baka no bending yet!" I flop down on the ground, and message my side gently. Lifting up my shirt I finger the last bandages around the cut. But I'm gonna have such a cool scar.
Thinking back, to that day,
Ace, Sabo and Luffy, arrived at the fort with me; the Bandits did all they could patching it up. It appeared that the rock I landed on, was pointy, japing into my side hitting a couple of nerves attached to my spine, and a cut about the size of Garp's hand length needed stiches, I was lucky it didn't hit anything important, like my liver, or something like that, even more lucky I didn't lose the use of my legs.
Looking up at the clouds I lose track of time, and before I know it the sun is setting, Luffy, calls for me "Melody!"
"Huh…?" I sigh, and get up from the soft grass and head back to Makino's bar.
I find Ace, Sabo, and Luffy in deep conversation "Yo." they jump, and stop talking
"So what'd ya learn?" Luffy begins to jump up and down eager to answer
"Mel, Mel we learned about Marriage, and luve!"
I sweat drop "Luffy, its Love, not luve…."
"Whatever…"
"Come on, let's go get some tiger for dinner." I smile
"K"
Ace and Sabo, follow behind the group talking between them self's, calling Luffy over about half way home. My patience runs thin "What'd ya talking bout?" I ask popping in on their conversation. "Nothing" they all cut in too quickly. Man what are they doing? Hum…time for Detective Mel!
The past week I have been tailing, the three boys, well mostly Ace and Sabo cause Luffy's to slow and I always caught him first. Many times I caught them talking, I only got bits of information though: sake, fruit, and something evolving Luffy and I. not much to go on but I have a feeling that everything is going on and it's probably soon.
I decide to chill out by the stream, still trying figure out what the boys are planning. With my feet dangling in the stream, small fishes swim by my toes, the afternoon sun blazes down. The cool water cools my body. Luffy, Sabo, and Ace appear out of the forest behind me, what's that? Ace is carrying a sake bottle, Sabo a bag, and Luffy 3 sake cups.
"Yo?" I question
"Hey Mel" Greets Ace
"Oi, Oi 'Mel' is for Luffy only! It's Melody to you." My temper flares at Ace "Sorry, sorry" holds his hands in surrender, sake bottle in front blocking my gaze. I calm down a bit, just a bit
Luffy just laughs "Heeheehee"
"So… what's up?" I ask turning around to face them. They sit down beside me Luffy on my right, Sabo on my left, and Ace in front.
Luffy sets down the three sake cups in front of Ace and he starts "Did you know?" pouring sake in the cups "If you exchange drinks you can become brothers"
I smile as Ace continues and addresses me "Melody?" I nod "can you be the witness to this day?"
"Of Course!" I laugh as the boys down the alcohol "Starting today we are Brothers!"
Sabo whispers to Ace and Luffy, they nod "Melody, umm… Luffy has something to ask you" Sabo's ears turn a bit red. I look at Luffy; he has got his signature smile on.
"Huh? What's up?" I ask
"Melody, will you be the queen of the Pirates alongside me? …. How did Makino put it…? Marriage? WILL YOU MARRY ME? He yells his face bright red. OMG *SHOCK*
I just stare at him. Eyes wide, a big blush on my face, I am at a loss for words, my mouth dries up, and my face just reddens. Marriage? Luffy? I-I-I-I…YES! I L-love him
"YES!" I smile attacking Luffy in a huge hug. Luffy's face lifts "You will?"
"YES!" I say again, and Luffy grins
"Melody… we found this Devil's Fruit in GOA Kingdom a week ago, I know you always wanted one so, here you go" Sabo interrupts holding out the bag I saw him carrying. I take it and set it on the ground, opening it to a red fruit with yellow lightning bolts all around it. It kinda looks like a pear. Ace steps up "this was with it when we got it" he holds out a piece of paper:
Speed, Speed Fruit
Type: Paramecia
Abilities: Controls the speed of the user's body, and mind. Giving the user extreme speed, that is faster than the speed of light, so recorded.
"Guys… this is Awesome!" I scream attacking the three boys in a hug "it's just like The Flash!"
"We thought you'd say that. Wait, who?" Sabo asks questionably turning to Ace and Luffy, "What? No one really just a book character who had the ability to be super-fast." I explain, while inspecting the fruit.
"Oh, ok…" Sabo shrugs
"Here goes nothing'" I shove the whole fruit in my mouth, and cough at the taste of sweaty gym socks and a rotten banana, nearly barfing, but forcing it down.
A few seconds of silence pass and I feel energized, my body does a full shake.
"Woah!" Luffy exclaims "Part of your hair turned blue!"
"What?" I grab at my black hair,
"It's true" Ace points out, the tips of my long hair, about an inch of black had turned a bright almost sea blue, same with the ends of my bangs, which is mostly all blue.
"Woah, that's awesome!" Sabo stares wide eyed while I laugh at my new color.
"Wait, let me see something" I hold a hand out in front of me, and put a finger in the water, I spin my finger, and a mini whirlpool starts. "That's fast!" Luffy laughs
"Awesome…" we watch the water turn, "pass me a rock" I hold a hand out, and Ace passes me a fist sized rock from the river bank.
Taking it in my hands I roll the rock around and around really fast. Stopping the rock is now a smooth marble.
"Woah" Luffy exclaims "AWSOME!"
"Pass me another one" I smile.
Doing the same thing with that rock, I smile wearily, my stomach growling. "I'm starving, I guess a side effect is I use up fuel quickly. You guys have string, or robe?"
"Um…" Sabo comes up with some twine. "Here"
I take a bunch and twirl it together, making a larger string. I tie the string to the two rocks, making something like key rings.
"There" I smile, my craftsmanship done.
"Awesome, Melody, we can use these as rings." Sabo takes them.
"Sure, but once we're pirates we can attach treasure to them."
"Awesome, Ready?" asks Luffy
I nod adrenalin running through my veins, giving me strength. This is the happiest Day of my Life.
The four of us stand, Ace and Sabo in front of Luffy and I "ok, so… Luffy, you take Melody's hands. And face each other" we do as Ace instructs, following the information he learned from Makino. "Ok so Luffy do you want to marry Melody?"
"Hells yeah, if I didn't why did I ask her?"
"OK, ok we get the point" I giggle at Ace's blushing facial expression. He continues "Melody, do you want to marry Luffy?" Sabo giggles a bit, at our blushing faces, and Luffy's blissfully ignorant face.
"Yes" I smile the blush still visible
"Ok, so with me and Sabo as witnesses" Ace hand us the key rings from Sabo "you can exchange them" Luffy holds out his and me mine. At once we drop them, grabbing the others mid-air, and clank them together. Huge smiles on both our faces. We turn to Ace "is that it?" To see both him and Sabo staring at their toes, their face's as red as a sunburnt cherry. "Y-you may k-k-kiss the b-bride" Sabo stutters out, after a punch from Ace. I feel my face heat up, steam literarily coming out my ears. Than Luffy says "what's a bride?"
"…"
"…"
"…"
Ace and I flop over hitting our faces on the grass, and Sabo face palms
"You Baka! I'm/she's the bride!" Ace and I scream at the idiot getting up, and whacking the rubber idiot on the head "Oh~" he gets it
"Anyway…" Sabo says, trying to continue the ceremony.
Luffy leans down at me, our noses barely touching, his smell takes over my senses, and in this blissful state I close the distance between us, sealing the kiss and marriage. My senses over load, sparks fly between us, roasting my insides, and I swear there are fireworks going off in the background; and I love every moment of it.
In the corner of my eye Ace and Sabo, are as bright as tomatoes, trying not to stare at the sight of Luffy and I.
Just a note on Lilly,
i have a doctor who idea an OC being a girl named Lilly transported into the TARDIS, and all that. i thought i would just tie her in here, and if i get to writing it, Melody will be referenced in her story, and mabye a one chapter on them meeting :O maybe, if i get around to it :P
Anyway enjoy!